Phrase Hound found 134 phrases and 37 compound words that contain orders. The most common are listed below. Open orders in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 134
- money ordersplural of money order: A directive to pay a prespecified amount of money from prepaid funds, making it a more trusted method of payment than a check.
- purchase ordersplural of purchase order: A commercial order issued by a buyer (purchaser) to a seller, and the document that defines it, indicating the type, quantities, and agreed prices for products or services the seller will provide to the buyer.
- court ordersplural of court order: A legally binding directive issued by a judge or authorized judicial officer that requires an individual or an entity to fulfill or perform specific actions or refrain from certain behaviors.
- orders of magnitudeplural of order of magnitude: The class of scale or magnitude of any amount, where each class contains values of a fixed ratio (most often 10) to the class preceding it.
- work ordersplural of work order: An authorization to expend resources to perform a task.
- postal ordersplural of postal order: A money order purchased at and issued by a post office for redemption at another post office to a named recipient.
- orders of businessplural of order of business: A task which needs to be completed.
- orders of operationsplural of order of operations: The sequence in which the various operations in a mathematical expression are to be evaluated.
- orders of serviceplural of order of service: The schedule of events for a religious service or ceremony.
- holy ordersThe sacrament of ordination to the rank of minister or (in Catholicism and Orthodoxy) deacon, priest, or bishop.
- standing ordersplural of standing order: A rule of procedure adopted by a governing body for its own internal use.
- orders of battleplural of order of battle: The arrangement of units or other divisions of the armed forces in combat; specifically, the deployment plans of an enemy, or a written record of this.
- last ordersA short period of time, which is usually announced by ringing a bell and is between five and fifteen minutes long, just before closing time. This is normally before the public house is no longer allowed to serve alcoholic beverages due to …
- international ordersplural of international order: world order.
- orders are ordersUsed wryly when someone attempts to justify questionable actions by referring to rules, laws or orders from higher up.
- orders upthird-person singular simple present indicative of order up: Especially at restaurants, called when someone's food order is ready to be retrieved or served.
- control ordersplural of control order: An order made by the Home Secretary to restrict an individual's liberty for the purpose of protecting members of the public from a risk of terrorism.
- mail-ordersthird-person singular simple present indicative of mail-order: A system of commerce in which one orders goods from a remote store which are then shipped by mail.
- short ordersplural of short order
- side ordersplural of side order: A small dish served as an accompaniment to a main course or entrée.
- social ordersplural of social order: A particular system of social structures, institutions, customs, values, and practices which conserve, maintain, and enforce certain societal relations and behavioral patterns.
- third ordersplural of third order: Lay members of Christian religious orders, who do not necessarily live in a religious community such as a monastery or a nunnery, and yet can claim to wear the religious habit and participate in the good works of a …
- executive ordersplural of executive order: An ordinance issued by the authority of the head of the executive branch of government.
- take ordersAlternative form of take holy orders: To become ordained within the Christian church.
- military ordersplural of military order: An order of knighthood which has a military (typically crusading) as well as a spiritual vocation.
Compound words 37
- disordersplural of disorder: Absence of order; state of not being arranged in an orderly manner.
- recordersplural of recorder: An apparatus for recording; a device which records.
- preordersplural of preorder: To order (goods or services) in advance, before they are available.
- backordersplural of backorder: An order that cannot be currently filled or shipped, but is requested nonetheless for when the item becomes available again.
- affordersplural of afforder: One who, or that which, affords or makes available.
- counterordersplural of counterorder: An order (command) made in opposition to a previous one.
- debordersthird-person singular simple present indicative of deborder: to remove the borders from
- eigenordersplural of eigenorder: The order (number of dimensions) of an eigenvector.
- gigaordersplural of gigaorder: The highest taxon of order, above magnorder and below a class.
- grandordersplural of grandorder: A taxonomic ranking below superorder and above mirorder.